I started moving around my navigation and omni-present social icons when I realized I didn’t really have any concrete data on what people were actually using. It’s pretty simple to track clicks to external links as events in Google Analytics but even easier via beacon transport.

When developing locally it’s nice to be able to have multiple applications running at once and at
pre-determined local domains. The /etc/hosts is one of the simplest ways to configure this but you have to modify it each time you’d like to add a new domain for local development. Pow.cx made this incredibly easy for a while but the better
approach is to be able to have a similar environment to what you’re running in production. Nginx
is really easy to get up and running with and nice to work with so I’ll be using that.